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The J League finished its 20th season. I figure there is alot of common ground between USSF and JFA with Soccer having to compete with other sports. With MLS coming to its 20th season in 2015 this would be a good thing to show. J.League 20th Anniversary: Special Show part 1 part 2 Arsene Wenger is in this one before he became Arsenal Manager. part 3 part 4
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Gray officials propose forgoing taxes for DC United stadium in exchange for revenue cut Washington Post
I would imagine that the concept of a MLS team sharing soccer revenue with a city government would be as welcome to the league as a case of bubonic plague.
The team is in on this one. The 50% sharing is designed to kick in only sometime after the break-even point (actually, from what I've read before, after an acceptable rate of profit, meaning it's basically a windfall tax). I do agree, though, that it's suspiciously high, high enough that it would discourage a team from earning money. I don't know what the 'threshold' is (they haven't released that), and that's a major gap in analyzing such a deal (second big one is who'll be doing the accounting, the team, the city, or someone neutral?), but (if it were neutrally applied) it would seem like a gain for both city and team if a minimum rental payment were established, but the percentage of revenue above the threshold were lowered.